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The fediverse equivalent is diaspora*, but I've never really seen much activity. It's also not been adopted by people I know IRL, so I don't feel much drive to use it.
I made an account on diaspora some time ago but ever since then I have been wondering what I am supposed to do on that platform.
@straightpeach @pingveno
Mood. I've tried it out but the biggest issue is that such a lack of people on it kinda defeats the point of having it be this social platform everyone can bump into buddies on.
And unfortunately, unlike Mastodon now, I doubt that if Facebook was going down the drink, diaspora* would get any big surge of new users migrating to it.
Also friendica which I like but can't get any friends to join. Friendica is also a little dated on its visual design.
@jackalope @pingveno I think that Friendica's UI was literally inspired by early Facebook's. It's not slick, but it has its charm, it's kind of nostalgic.
It def looks it which has it's charm but there's some improvements I think would help. Development doesn't seem that active though. Also friendica seems to be mostly German focused and I found the "look for a server" experience a bit rougher than with Mastodon which at least has a "backup server for everyone" with mastodon.social.
@pingveno @jackalope The utility of any social network is determined by its active users, and Friendica users can communicate with Mastodon and Diaspora folks. It's just that those users make up 99% of its social utility and the majority end up forced to make unusual concessions for compatibility (like not titling your posts, so Mastodonites don't have to click on a link to read them).
Friendica is actually the better equivalent as it speaks ActivityPub (and also has great Lemmy compatibility).